Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-15
GENERAL.

| COINCIDENT with the announcement OF
the opening of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
ST. Paul extension to Kansas City, re-
port was started that the road had entered
| into a trafic agreement with the Union
Pacific.
THE passenger steamer c. II. Merritt.
| plying between Chatham, Ont, and Detroit
| was burned the other morning. She was
valued at S1S,OG and was insured for
=, 600.
| Synod has been called to meet at Lambeth,
| England, July 3next to discuss church and
secular matters
EIGHT of the persons who attended the
| famous midnight meeting of Nationalists at
Woodford. Ireland, have been sentenced &c
various terms of Imprisonment.
TWENTY persons were more or less in
jured by a floor giving way during an auc-
ton sale at Teeswater, Ont, recently.
THREE men were killed and several in
jured by the explosion of locomotive on
the Inter Colonial railroad at Steerlarton,
Station, N. s., recently.
LORD LYONS, the British Ambassador,
died in London on the 4th.
FIFTEEN thousand workmen in the fac
tories at Northampton, England, were
locked out on the 5th.
THE Chinese Al AMBASSADOR, Hung Suen,
arrived recently at Berlin. He was accom-
panied by an imposing suite.
MOST Rev. JoHN POWER, Catholic Bishop
of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland, is
dead.
JOHN GREEN q Co., wholesale dry goods
merchants of London, Ont, have failed
with $50, 900 liabilities. The cause was the
suspension of the Bank of London.
RUSSIAN troops were reported concen-
trating on the Austrian frontier on the 9th
and it was believed that war was inevita-
BILE. Considerable excitement existed in
Berlin, Government stocks taking a de-
clded fall.
GERMANY, Austria and Italy have agreed
to raise the Ministers at Madrid to the rank
OF Ambassadors, and England is expected
to follow. This is step toward the recog-
milton OF Spain as great power.
EUROPEAN fnanciers did not attach any
Importance to the Austrian press predic-
lions of trouble because of the concentra-
ton of Russian troops in Poland, and there
were free purchases at the reductions.
TELEGRAMs from Accra, Western Africa,
under date of December 1, says that King
Jaja, of Oporbo, who was recently arrested
by the British Consul for interfering with
traders, has been sent into exile.
The Royal Mail Steamship lines steamer
Isla De Panay, which left Liverpool Nov
ember 3 for Manila and Singapore, was
reported ashore nine miles north of Sagres.
Portugal. Seven of her crew were drowned
She was a vessel of 8, 500 tons.
IN an interview at Paris the day follow
ing the publication of the Presidents mes
sage, Hon. James G. Blaine expressed him.
self as opposed to the views therein enun-
ciated, preferring to the abolition OF
tobacco duties to any interference with the
tariff.
GOLD in paying quantities is said to have
been discovered near Dolgelly, Wales.
PAUL DE LA RoULDE has resigned the
presidency of the French Patriotic League
because OF a disagreement with the execu-
tive committee over his action in the Grevy
crisis.
THE British steamer Lorne has been
wrecked in Chinese waters. SiXty-nine OF
the people on board were saved, the fate
Of the remainder being unknown.
HARRINGTON, the Irish Nationalist, was
found guilty at Tralee on the Sth under the
Crimes act and was sentenced to one
months Imprisonment for pubhs ling re-
ports of League meetings.